Friday, May 28, 2021

Friday Phenomena

As cloudy weather returns on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a Gallup poll, two thirds of Americans believe that transgender athletes should compete against people of their biological sex.

From FrontpageMag, the world doesn't like Jews defending themselves.  (For some reason, all of today's articles in FM have tomorrow's date.  The site doesn't normally publish articles on Saturdays.)

From Townhall, border county sheriffs in Texas call out the Biden administration's neglect of the migration crisis.

From The Washington Free Beacon, USA Today removes the word "male" from an op-ed by a female athlete who had to compete against transgender athletes.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump trashes former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis) after he tells the Republican Party to dump him.

From The Federalist, a writer defends her home town in Wisconsin from charges of racism from The New York Times.

From American Thinker, who made former President Obama's birth certificate an issue?

From CNS News, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is convinced that President Biden's ATF nominee does not believe in the 2nd Amendment.

From LifeZette, according to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Trump has "some damage to repair" if he runs in 2024.

From NewsBusters, the media's embarrassing lack of curiosity about the virus lab in Wuhan, China.

From Canada Free Press, recently resigned BLM leader Patrice Cullors lives a life of "white privilege".

From Global News, nationalism in the province of Quebec poses an election challenge for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

From TeleSUR, the Guatemalan Public Prosecutor's Office arrests 11 retired military generals for alleged crimes against humanity when the country was a dictatorship.

From The Conservative Woman, appeasing the E.U. bully will only make it want to come back for more.

From Snouts in the Trough, will the West be defended by wimps?

From the Evening Standard, Wales will allow musicians to perform live.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces the easing of coronavirus restrictions on travel, restaurant, sports, and other things.

From The Brussels Times, police in Brussels, Belgium will have to deal with nine demonstrations tomorrow, three of them already deemed to be illegal.

From Dutch News, Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya meets with Dutch Prime Minister Marke Rutte.

From EuroNews, Germany agrees to recognize its actions in colonial Namibia as genocide.

From Euractiv, Germany plans to invest €8 billion in large-scale hydrogen projects.

From Hungary Today, the Indian variant of the coronavirus is found in Hungary.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Telex.)

From Sputnik International, Russia is ready for dialogue with the E.U., but when the E.U. will be ready is unclear.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian caretaker Health Minister Stoicho Katsarov orders an investigation of the former government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

From Ekathimerini, wildfires break out in the Greek regions of Corinthia and Fthiotida.  (If there are any ancient theaters in those places, could anyone get in trouble for yelling "theater" in a crowded fire?)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, several thousand Slovenians protest against Prime Minister Janez Janša's government and demand snap elections.

From Balkan Insight, a U.N. court in The Hague rejects former Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic's request for the final verdict in his trial to be postponed.

From Malta Today, an E.U. delegation led by Malta discusses migration and political stability on a visit to Libya.

From Italy24News, over 900,000 people have been immunized against the coronavirus in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.

From RFI, a policewoman is stabbed near Nantes, France.

From Free West Media, European politicians call for children to be given the BioNTech/Pfizer coronavirus vaccine without their consent.

From ReMix, the E.U. moves to limit free speech.

From The North Africa Post, according to the Moroccan ambassador to Spain, Spain has undermined neighborliness and mutual respect.

From Turkish Minute, according to Turkish media outlets, 50 prisoners have died from the coronavirus in Turkish jails.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu takes a swipe at the Yamina party and tries to pry right-wingers from Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel El-Sisi inspects roads east of Cairo and listens to requests from citizens.

From The New Arab, a U.N. envoy says that he has talked to a negotiator for Yemen's Houthi rebels.

From IranWire, a Kurdish former activist is held hostage in Iran.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan detects its first case of the Indian coronavirus variant.

From the Afghanistan Times, airstrikes in the Afghan province of Balkh send 23 Taliban terrorists to their virgins.

From The Hans India, Congress party politician Rahul Gandhi blames Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second coronavirus wave in India.

From NDTV, Pakistan threatens a Hindu American advocacy group for exposing the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh.

From The Straits Times, after a Singapore-flagged oil tanker catches fire, Sri Lanka braces for an oil spill.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia records a daily high of new coronavirus cases.

From Vietnam Plus, the market in Poland has room for Vietnamese food and farm products.

From Gatestone Institute, in the near future there might be Chinese naval ships patrolling off New York City.

From The Stream, lawyer Alan Dershowitz warns about censorship.

From The Daily Signal, 11 states consider banning the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. needs better infrastructure, not more of it.

From Fox News, China keeps toying with the Biden administration.

From the Daily Caller, John Cena's apology to China shows how celebrities ignore abuses by the Chinese Communist Party.

From AP News, a farm laborer who entered the U.S. illegally as a teenager is convicted of killing a University of Iowa student in 2018.  (via The Daily Wire)

From Newsmax, the CDC loosens mask requirements for children at summer camp.

From Breitbart, celebrities back the so-called "For The People Act".

From the New York Post, Hunter Biden allegedly boasted about smoking crack with the late Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry.

And from The Daily Wire, according to recently leaked radar footage, the USS Omaha was swarmed by UFOs.

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